profaner
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In the region of profaner things the two friends canvass the comparative worth of Sallust and of Tully's Epistles.
From Burke by John Morley
If, however," continued the dispassionate Being, "the profaner is left to himself he will, sooner or later, in the ordinary course of human intelligence, become involved in some disaster of his own contriving.
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
All the city was soon in an uproar, the devout people seized Paul, drew him out of the Temple, the gates of which were closed against this profaner.
From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Peter Annet
Then Pete plunged into one of the profaner tunes which he had practised in the days of the cowhouse, and off went Katherine with a whoop.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
She spoke of him as "an empiric, a mean alchymist, a dreamer on the philosopher's stone, a false prophet, a profaner of the true worship, the self-dubbed Count Cagliostro!"
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
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